The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent,9780898865745

The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780898865745
ISBN10: 0898865743
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-07-01
Publisher(s): Mountaineers Books
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Summary

On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Messner, the world-renowned master of alpine-style climbing, became the first person to reach the summit of Everest solo and without supplemental oxygen. A vivid account of the expedition, "The Crystal Horizon" also reflects on how he explored his innermost thoughts while facing the most extreme physical challenge he had ever encountered. 217 photos. 36-page color photo insert.

Table of Contents

Everest--South--North--Solo
6(21)
Mount Everest--Fairytale and Reality
21(36)
Homewards
21(2)
Kathmandu
23(7)
Like a Fairytale
30(11)
Mallory and Irvine
41(9)
Meeting with Nena
50(7)
Kangchung -- Taboos and Mysteries
57(44)
Back in Europe
57(5)
Peking
62(7)
Maurice Wilson
69(11)
Denman and Larsen
80(5)
The Motive
85(3)
Success of the Japanese
88(2)
My Valley, the People
90(11)
Tibet -- the Yak Nomads
101(44)
Departure for the Land of Snows
101(5)
Success of the Chinese
106(2)
Lhasa
108(12)
Shekar, Wonder of the World
120(6)
In the Last Village
126(5)
The Monastery of the Snows
131(5)
On Foot to the Nangpa La
136(9)
North Col -- Stuck in the Monsoon Snow
145(28)
East Rongbuk Glacier
145(6)
Ten Long Days
151(5)
Who was the First?
156(2)
Avalanche Snow
158(4)
Under the North Face
162(11)
Rongbuk -- In the Wake of the Cultural Revolution
173(18)
Westwards
173(3)
Shisha Pangma
176(4)
Two Hours from Kathmandu
180(11)
Chomolungma--Ascent and Descent
191(118)
Monsoon Break
191(5)
Now or Never
196(9)
1,300 Metres Higher
205(25)
Sisyphus on Everest
230(19)
A High Price
249(5)
Ganpei, Ganpei
254(7)
A Single Night
261(48)
Mount Everest--Chronicle and Bibliography
309
Mount Everest
309
Attempts and Ascents to 1988
310
Afterthought by the Author, 1982
316
Reading List
319
Colour Plate Section I
Photographs of the 1922/1924 Expeditions
9
Colour Plate Section II
Photographs of the 1980 Messner Expedition
275

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